Upcoming Online Events
Saturday, March 13th, 9:00am - 11am
Community Exploration of Light and Dark:
A Circle Time of Sharing
March 20th, 2021 is Spring Equinox, when day and night are equal in length.
Our Saturday, March 13th, gathering will allow for a pause to honor this time of year and to acknowledge ALL that we are holding. During this reflective gathering, we will have space to individually explore these questions:
What is the Light in your life?
What is the Dark?
How have your experiences of the Light and Dark shaped and sustained your spiritual practices during this past unprecedented year?
During our time together we will listen deeply to personal stories. This is an opportunity to connect and/or reconnect to community. There will be times of silent reflection with music and imagery, so bring your journals if you wish.
All are invited to join in our community online circle.
Facilitators: Denise Plaisier, Linda Conroy, Marguerite Johnson, Peggy Allen, Summer Starr, Stillpoint discernment team
Date and Time: March 13, 9:00am - 11am
Registration is required in order to receive a zoom link for this event.
* Donations are always appreciated, if you feel so led, to help with Stillpoint's ongoing monthly expenses.
Mail donations to: Stillpoint, 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226,
OR PayPal. Thank you!
A Circle Time of Sharing
March 20th, 2021 is Spring Equinox, when day and night are equal in length.
Our Saturday, March 13th, gathering will allow for a pause to honor this time of year and to acknowledge ALL that we are holding. During this reflective gathering, we will have space to individually explore these questions:
What is the Light in your life?
What is the Dark?
How have your experiences of the Light and Dark shaped and sustained your spiritual practices during this past unprecedented year?
During our time together we will listen deeply to personal stories. This is an opportunity to connect and/or reconnect to community. There will be times of silent reflection with music and imagery, so bring your journals if you wish.
All are invited to join in our community online circle.
Facilitators: Denise Plaisier, Linda Conroy, Marguerite Johnson, Peggy Allen, Summer Starr, Stillpoint discernment team
Date and Time: March 13, 9:00am - 11am
Registration is required in order to receive a zoom link for this event.
* Donations are always appreciated, if you feel so led, to help with Stillpoint's ongoing monthly expenses.
Mail donations to: Stillpoint, 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226,
OR PayPal. Thank you!
Our original March offering is being Rescheduled for a future date.
Saturday, April 17, 9:00am - 12pm
A New Earth: 2021
A New Earth: 2021
A New Earth 2021:
The Vision and Wisdom of Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen is celebrated as the female patron of the environment and the natural world.
Join us to explore the legacy of this "Creation Master" who speaks with great timeliness in her courageous ability to discern the signs of the times, her love for creation, her feminine reading of sacred mysteries, her poetry and her visionary prophecy.
In a time of global awareness of the radical need to care for our "Common Home", we will enter into an urgent dialogue with the medieval "Sybil of the Rhine". Our gathering will also include an exploration of Hildegard's spirituality as a means to empower us in taking up "The Great Work" of our time.
This morning offering will be a contemplative inquiry, dialogue and creative engagement with one of the most interesting and potent women of history.
About the Presenter:
Kathleen Deignan, CND, is a Congregation of Notre Dame Sister and Professor of Religious and Environmental Studies at Iona College, where she directs the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit.
GreenFaith Fellow, she studied under Father Thomas Berry at Fordham University. Kathleen is composer in residence with Schola Ministries, a sacred arts initiative that has produced a dozen collections of her original sacred songs.
Her books include Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours and Thomas Merton: Writings on Nature. She is one of the Founding Conveners of the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue.
Date: Saturday, April 17th, 9am - 12pm
Fee: $30.00; partial and full scholarships available upon request.
Mail checks made out to "Stillpoint"
To: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "April event" to the "Add a note".
Registration required in order to receive the zoom link.
Join us to explore the legacy of this "Creation Master" who speaks with great timeliness in her courageous ability to discern the signs of the times, her love for creation, her feminine reading of sacred mysteries, her poetry and her visionary prophecy.
In a time of global awareness of the radical need to care for our "Common Home", we will enter into an urgent dialogue with the medieval "Sybil of the Rhine". Our gathering will also include an exploration of Hildegard's spirituality as a means to empower us in taking up "The Great Work" of our time.
This morning offering will be a contemplative inquiry, dialogue and creative engagement with one of the most interesting and potent women of history.
About the Presenter:
Kathleen Deignan, CND, is a Congregation of Notre Dame Sister and Professor of Religious and Environmental Studies at Iona College, where she directs the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit.
GreenFaith Fellow, she studied under Father Thomas Berry at Fordham University. Kathleen is composer in residence with Schola Ministries, a sacred arts initiative that has produced a dozen collections of her original sacred songs.
Her books include Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours and Thomas Merton: Writings on Nature. She is one of the Founding Conveners of the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue.
Date: Saturday, April 17th, 9am - 12pm
Fee: $30.00; partial and full scholarships available upon request.
Mail checks made out to "Stillpoint"
To: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "April event" to the "Add a note".
Registration required in order to receive the zoom link.
Saturday, May 15th, 9:00am - 12pm
Learning the Language of Loss
Learning the Language of Loss
You are warmly invited to join us for a 3-hour online workshop that is a collaborative offering between Sarah Peterson, from Clear Mourning and Elizabeth Johnson from The Peaceful Presence Project.
The focus of this offering will be multifold: an exploration of how we can show up differently in the face of grief; why avoidance around difficult conversations and interactions blocks opportunities for growth, resiliency and wonder.
Participants will be offered tangible tools and language for bridging the painful disconnect that oftentimes accompanies all forms of loss and death.
About the Presenters:
Sarah Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker with years of experience at the beside of hospice patients. Having completed her studies at The Sacred Art of Living, Center for Spiritual Living, she has a paradigm for being with suffering. After the tragic death of her daughter, Sarah founded Clear Mourning and is the Executive Director of this non-profit. Clear Mourning’s mission is to shift the culture of grief through innovation, support and awareness. Her private therapy practice in Bend, OR, focuses on those in grief and major life transition.
Elizabeth Johnson, an end of life doula and graduate of the Anamcara Project, is the Executive Director of The Peaceful Presence Project, an organization committed to the cultivation of death and grief literate communities. Her personal and profound confrontation with loss opened a genuine curiosity around the power of death and sorrow in our individual lives. Elizabeth has more than a decade of facilitation experience, leading dozens of groups and individuals into the challenging and revelatory territories of self-exploration and truth seeking. She is also one of the contributors to "Endnotes", see below for more information.
Date and Time: Saturday, May 15th, from 9:00am - 12pm
Fee: $30.00; Partial or full scholarships available upon requests.
Mail checks made out to "Stillpoint"
To: 1625 Huntley Road, Bellingham, WA 98226
If you choose to use PayPal, please add "May event" to the "Add a note".
Registration required in order to receive the zoom link.
"endnotes" is an evidence-based, holistic end of life planning workbook.
It is available through Peaceful Presence website. For more information about this workbook, click here.
